If you do have X-SendFile installed make sure your settings for it are
correct as well. I got caught by this the other day too. I had
forgotten to add...
|XSendFile on
XSendFileAllowAbove on
|||to my VirtualHost config.
FYI.
matte - webmaster
webmaster at ruckuswireless.com
||Kirk Haines wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 1:23 AM, Jeremy Kemper <jeremy at bitsweat.net> wrote:
>>> On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 11:35 PM, George Schreiber <lists at ruby-forum.com> wrote:
>>>>> Hello,
>>>>>> sorry if creating a dupe...
>>>>>> I'm trying to download files to authenticated users in my app. I've set
>>> up x_send_file. All seems to be correct to me, however when I try to
>>> download any file, I get a 1-byte long file downloaded.
>>>>> This only works with a frontend httpd to intercept the X-Sendfile
>> response header and send the actual file.
>>>> Without a frontend httpd, you're seeing the expected result. Use
>> firebug to verify.
>>>> To expand on what Jeremy said, x_send_file just sets an HTTP header,
> X-Sendfile, in the response.
>> It's up to whatever is running in front of your processes to see that
> header and then to do something with it.
>> So, in order to adequately test it, you will have to have _something_
> in front of your processes which handle it. Also be aware that only
> some web servers implement X-Sendfile (Apache, via mod_xsendfile,
> lighttpd natively [it originated with them], and Swiftiply are the
> three that come to mind). Litespeed has their own redirect syntax
> (which they spin to make it sound better than the others). Nginx also
> has it's own approach with x-accel-redirect (which Swiftiply may
> support in the future, as well).
>> So if you are using any one of those mechanisms for delivering static
> file downloads, to test it you will have to have a compatible front
> end running, and without some (fairly minor) code changes, you are
> locked into whatever one you choose to use.
>> Hope this helps.
>>> Kirk Haines
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